La maravilla
by Alfredo Vea
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Slow and languid in its storytelling, but humble and powerful nonetheless, La Maravilla is a paean to hybridity and a loving immersion in the author's hometown - a stretch of unpaved road near the U.S.-Mexico border, where many cultures and old traditions and new interpretations meet and merge.
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Read in November, 2007
Somebody, please, explain to me the hypnotic effect this book seems to have on so many. I just don't see it. It is beyond slow, it is plodding. There are too many one~dimensional characters. I got two~thirds through and had enough! Hardly a marvel.
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Read in January, 1999
this guy is an unsung hero of the literary world, as far as I'm concerned. his other books aren't quite as good, but still. he is really what you want Gabriel Garcia Marquez to be, when he isn't.
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Very powerful and poetic. This book changed my life. I will no longer make presumptions of people I don't know. Everyone has a story and everyone is a miracle.
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I don't remember to much about this book but it was cool. A little magical realism. It's about a boy trying to reconcile his indian past with the present.
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I read this book years ago and I'm looking forward to a revisit. I'm so excited I happened upon it at the library today."
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another one i picked up at the overstock book store
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